Prison breaks : toward a sociology of escape

Chantraine, Gilles; Tomas, Martin

Document type :

Ouvrage (y compris édition critique et traduction)

Permalink :

http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12210/90

Title :

Prison breaks : toward a sociology of escape

Author(s) :

Chantraine, Gilles [Auteur]

Centre Lillois d’Études et de Recherches Sociologiques et Économiques - UMR 8019 [CLERSÉ]
Tomas, Martin [Auteur]

Issue number :

Studies in Prison and Penology

Publisher :

Palgrave MacMillan

Publication place :

Cham

Publication date :

2018

Number of pages :

351 p.

ISBN :

978-3-319-64357-1

ISSN :

2753-0604

HAL domain(s) :

Sciences de l'Homme et Société/Sociologie

English abstract : [en]

This edited collection analyses the prison through the most fundamental challenge it faces: escapes. The chapters comprise original research from established prison scholars who develop the contours of a sociology of prison ...
Show more >This edited collection analyses the prison through the most fundamental challenge it faces: escapes. The chapters comprise original research from established prison scholars who develop the contours of a sociology of prison escapes. Drawing on firm empirical evidence from places like India, Tunisia, Canada, the UK, France, Uganda, Italy, Sierra Leone, and Mexico, the authors show how escapes not only break the prison, but are also fundamental to the existence of such institutions: how they are imagined, designed, organized, justified, reproduced and transformed. The chapters are organised in four interconnected themes: resistance and everyday life; politics and transition; imaginaries and popular culture; and law and bureaucracy, which reflect how escapes are productive, local, historical, and equivocal social practices, and integral to the mysterious intransigence of the prison. The result is a critical and theoretically informed understanding of prison escapes – which has so far been absent in prison scholarship – and which will hold broad appeal to academics and students of prisons and penology, as well as practitioners.Show less >

Language :

Anglais

Audience :

Non spécifiée

Popular science :

Non

Administrative institution(s) :

Université de Lille
CNRS
Univ. Littoral Côte d’Opale

Collections :

Centre Lillois d'Études et de Recherches Sociologiques et Économiques (CLERSE) - UMR 8019

Research team(s) :

Ancrages et dynamiques comparés du politique

Submission date :

2018-10-26T12:04:30Z
2019-11-27T10:17:41Z
2019-11-27T10:18:56Z
2024-02-09T14:13:20Z

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